Strong agree! There’s that famous quote that “the arc of history bends toward progress”. I hate that quote. That really isn’t true! History is messy and full of back and forth in all different cultures at the same time. And progress is by no means guaranteed. What we have, we have because good people fought for it, tooth and nail.
Such notions are inevitably western-biased as well. Like, those people talking about how great Alexandria was never seem to wonder what was going on in China or Persia at the time. They were doin’ stuff too, it turns out. They weren’t just waiting around to be footnotes in white peoples’ wars.
